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Show S00 PER CENT ' PROFIT IS ALL 'SPECS' DEMAND, CHICAGO, Oct. 3. Five ticket scalpers" were arrested in downtown hotel lobbies and at the White Sox baseball park today-,' accused of selling seats to the world's' series game at a profit as high as SO0 per cent. The arrests were made by internal in-ternal revenue agents and their deputies.' One of the men arrested was said to-have to-have a block of tickets which cost him: $19.50 and on which he realized $3S9. An-, other sold tickets with a face value of $?3 for S1S0. Speculators throng the lob- bles during the morning selling box seata for the game. Half an hour before tho.. start of the contest, however, the speculators specu-lators appeared to be anxious to sell their,. wares at whatever prices they could-' Some of them sold at a loss. -.1 The specific charge to be preferred against the scalpers involves their failuro I to register as ticket brokers. Federal I war tax regulations permit ticket specu-I specu-I lators to realize a profit of 50 cents on I each ticket, but alt profit above this ! amount must be divKed equally with the i government. The crowd at the game was somewhat of a disappointment, as there were several sev-eral hundred vacant seats in the bleachers bleach-ers and pavilion. The official attendance was 29,126, beiween 4000 and &000 below the seating capacity of the park. |